Is There Any Gold at the End of the "Rainbow?"

Rainbow is promoting a new single from their repackaged album, entitled ‘Sweet Dreams.’ It has a new MV with it, and while I will admit the aforementioned song is……….please let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we?

Rainbow revealed the music video for “Sweet Dreams,” the title track for the repackaged version of their second mini-album, “To Me.”

Rainbow had their last stage for “To Me” on the last weekend of May, but we will see them back on stage on Thursday, June 23rd on Mnet‘s M! Countdown as they start promotions for “Sweet Dreams.”
And now….

I have a love-hate relationship with Rainbow. First impressions certainly did assist with that. The music videos aren’t bad overall, but I prefer to watch my k-pop live; they might as well be mannequins for all the life they give them. I really liked “To Me” but without the MV prettiness and storyline when I first saw them perform this it fell flat.

The costumes and choreography just scream “generic group” however there are distinct personalities there, beyond the different hairstyles. Say what you want about Miss A or 2NE1, but they bring energy and creativity to their MVs and performances, as different from each other as they may be. This is just one little Kpop fan’s opinion but I hate the choreography for “To Me.”

Again ‘Sweet Dreams’ has a decent showing, showcasing each girl and allowing them to show personality but how DSP will transfer that to the stage remains. Remember the ‘A’ “ab dance” controversy? Sometimes showing skin isn’t enough.

I love Rainbow because they are that “generic group”. They are the standard of Kpop and always produce a pleasing song with a slightly catchy dance that works for them and their pretty faces. Nothing about them is spectacular, but all of them are awesome which is hard to say for a group. If any other company but DSP had these girls they would be so much more famous! DSP just got lucky with Kara (I like them but they had no help) all of DSP promotion tactics suck. Just saying

kpopboi

LOL, Rainbow are so ‘generic’ that you could get a cookie cutter of them and mass produce them in Korea, and the public wouldn’t notice. But Jaekyung is fire. dayyyum.

Fatricia Fatlegs

They contribute to KPOP’s dwindling credibility

Merewen

Omo Omo! Is that real grown women singing??!!?? Not cutsie high pitched whines of children?

yeppers

I agree with brent with the act dsp sucks. seriously wit many big names making their return rainbow will be overlooked =( i think they came a long way too. mach is still one of my all time favorite songs and i love to mee as well. i think they should stay in korea though. with all these groups going to japan every 5 seconds they can really build a strong fanbase. if they stay in korea and actually promte better (ie dont try and promote a single with 2ne1 and 2pm [i dont like either group but they are extremely popular])if they say in korea they can create a powerful fanbase. i hope the best for them i really like them!

hapacalgirl

To be honest Rainbow has what it takes to make it to the higher echelons of kpop but unfortunately DSP sucks at promoting their artists. They have improved in that they are giving the group pretty solid music, but they still fall flat on the promotions and choreography. I think these girls have what it takes to give a really good performance with great choreography, its just that DSP doesn’t hire people to give them that edge dance wise. These girls are great at performing live and are consistent in the vocals (they often sound just like the recording, which lets face it, its a rarity in kpop) but until DSP steps it up a notch it will be hard for them to ever be “big”. I mean look at SS501, yes I know that Triple S is a large fanbase, but lets face it, they never reached Big Bang and DBSK levels of popularity mostly because DSP had no idea what to do with them half the time while YGE and SME are masters at promotion.

hmm

As others have said, DSP is terrible and should just stop making idol groups IMO. They had SS501 who had a very successful debut year but then DSP had no idea what to do with them and they never it their true potential. They got lucky with Kara. You would think they would learn from the mistakes they made with SS501 but no, they are making alot of the same mistakes with Rainbow. I feel sorry for the girls, their songs have been good but unfortunately you need more than that to make it to the top in the Kpop world.

em

DSP does suck but I don’t think they got lucky with Kara. They got lucky with Hara being in Kara. Kara still sucks. There’s nothing special about them. Rainbow isn’t any better. There’s no one girl in Rainbow that can bring it. No one girl has the ability to carry the group higher. Half of the girls aren’t trying hard enough, the other half are doing what is comfortable. There’s nothing special there. I do like Woori though. I don’t like the leader because she’s always making this sex face at the camera and she isn’t that great. She doesn’t have the voice or the dance moves. She’s just prettier than the other girls. I don’t like their main vocalist either because they rely on her too much and she’s screaming half of the time. The girl with the big eyes is annoying because she can’t sing or rap or do anything. She’s off-key most of the time. I do like a few of their newest songs though. But they aren’t anything special. Rainbow is one of those groups who don’t look like a group. It looks like random girls who were thrown together. They don’t have that cohesiveness and the bond that exudes from almost every other girl group. But I think Kara has more of the awkward group thing than Rainbow. But in the end, DSP sucks and they need to let every one of their artists go so they can go do better things with better training.

showalter

GENERIC! That’s the word I was trying to find to describe this group! I like their songs, but their live performances are beyond dull. The members themselves are pretty boring except the rapper and lead singer. Vocally, they’re nothing impressive, but at least they have a stand out vocalist unlike Kara who has none.

Liv

Their lives are pretty good……thanks to their dull and repetitive dances.

eboy07

Thats kpop for you.

Nana

I don’t think they’re that bad. I like Woori too, and I wish they’d get an equal share of the spotlight. That being said, I do like No Eul’s and Yoon Hye’s tone when they sing “모든걸 다 줘 늘 마지막처럼” together… but that’s just my opinion, no bashing please ;)

jlbu

I don’t find anything outstanding about this group. Vocals are way better than Kara’s and they’re all pretty consistent, but I don’t find any one voice impressive or memorable. They just lack that extra “oomph” that makes other groups stand out from the rest. Thank god they’re pretty and get such good songs from DSP!

carebear

Most of their songs so far are pretty good, but they’d be great if Rainbow could actually sell it on stage and that’s where they fail.